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If wouldn’t be Friday without a document dump… The George Washington Bridge scandal plaguing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration is going to mean a lot of weekend reading. The New Jersey State Assembly is set to release 907 documents that have been subpoenaed by investigators. After a nearly two-hour press conference Thursday during which …

As The Toll Booth Turns: BridgeGate Docs Being Released As Civil Suits Are FiledRead More »

The National Security Administration has been insisting that the metadata collected from phone records cannot reveal someone’s identity or the content of their phone calls. President Obama pushed this narrative back in June as well: As was indicated, what the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls. They are …

Despite the NSA’s Claims, It’s Ridiculously Easy to Identify Someone from MetadataRead More »

On the very same day that the White House released the NSA review panel’s recommendations, Gallup published a poll showing nearly three-fourths of Americans stating that Big Government is the greatest threat to our country’s future. This is a record high for the ~50 years that the firm has been asking this question. Via Gallup: …

A Record High: 72% of Americans Say Big Government is Nation’s Greatest ThreatRead More »

For people going through the exchanges, the deadline to be covered by the new year is next Monday. If one wants an insurance plan effective January 1st, s/he needs the application and enrollment forms submitted by December 23rd. The next deadline was getting one’s first premium payment in by December 31st, but now most insurers …

Obamacare’s First Payment Deadline for Consumers Has Been ExtendedRead More »

Oops: A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely to be unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to run afoul of the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches …

Judge Says NSA Phone Collection Program Likely UnconstitutionalRead More »

“Does evil exist?” It’s a debate that is often thrown around. Some, relying solely on scientific reasoning say evil does not exist. For example:

It’s back! Coming in January, the great BBC series Sherlock will make it’s return. The biggest question of course is this: How did Sherlock Holmes fake his own death? I hope we get to find out. Here’s the trailer: What do you think? Think they’ll reveal or try to ignore it?

First came Operation Fast and Furious, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) purposely allowed illegal gun sales in a failed attempt to track down the heads of Mexican drug cartels. Now, the ATF has stooped to using the mentally disabled to carry out their schemes. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported …

Shameful: ATF Exploits Mentally Disabled In Sting OperationsRead More »

Productivity is usually defined in economic terms as, “the rate at which goods or services are produced especially output per unit of labor.” In everyday speak it usually just means, “getting stuff done.” Therefore if you have a home project to do and complete it sooner than expected, you could say you were being very …

Unproductive Congress? That’s Great News For EverybodyRead More »